The Tribune, January 19, 2002

Police corner three dreaded gangsters 
Our Correspondent

Jhajjar, January 18
The district police claimed to have succeeded in solving several cases of murder, dacoity and looting with the arrest of three dreaded gangsters, identified as Hansraj of Charakhi Dadri, Kuldeep and Vinod of Goyala Kalan village, by the CIA wing near Bahadurgarh town today.

According to a district police spokesman, a team of the crime branch put up a naka near Dawla village after receiving a tip off that three criminals were roving in the area in an Indica car with a fake registration number HR-29 G-4296.

The party spotted the vehicle and chased the car. Then the criminals drove the car towards the sarson fields in a bid to escape. In the meantime, another police party from the Jhajjar police station joined them and cordoned off the field in which the criminals were hiding. Once they were convinced that they could not escape, they surrendered when the police party challenged them.

Country-made loaded pistols and the car were seized by the police.

On being interrogated further, they admitted their involvement in several cases, including murder, robbery and looting at many places. In fact, Hansraj, alias Hansa, had escaped from the police after he killed Manphole Singh, warden of Bhiwani jail, in August last year when he was on parole in another murder case. He also looted Rs 20,000 and an Indica car from a trader in Maham in Rohtak and demanded Rs 50 lakh from another trader in Dadri as ransom.

Again, they robbed another Indica car from three persons on the Jhajjar-Rewari road on January 5. Apart from this, their involvement in several other criminal cases in Bhiwani, Rohtak, Sonepat, Delhi and adjoining areas had been confirmed, the police said.